Graduate Student Affiliate
Katia Yoza
- Campus: NB
- Email: katia.yoza@rutgers.edu
- PhD or MA: PhD
- School : SAS
- Department: Spanish and Portuguese
- Project: Contemporary urban and global transmissions of traditional narratives on Amazonian cosmovisions and collaborations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples
- Research Areas (themes, countries): Amazonian Literature, Art and Culture, Latin American Indigenous Literature and Culture, Latin American Contemporary Public and Visual Culture, Environmental Humanities, Political Ecologies, Indigenous Studies, Public Humanities, Gender in Latin American Cinema
- Dissertation Title: Resilience and Indigenous Cosmovisions: Humans and Nonhumans in Visual and Written Narratives from the Peruvian Amazon
- Abstract of Dissertation Work: Indigenous peoples from the Peruvian Amazon are innovating how they communicate traditional narratives for building their social-ecological resilience and their alliances with global actors.
